Dickensian Landscapes

[pyat]

velvetpage and I just finished watching the 1951 film, Scrooge on a very battered and fuzzy VHS tape. I realized it's actually been ages since I watched it, at least in the original version.

A while back, I was collecting photographs of 19th century London for a Castle Falkenstein game. Most of these were taken in the 1890s or, but some captured bits of London as it was in the time of Dickens. The poor sections of town were just as insanely labyrinthine as Dickens presented them - 200 year old houses, rotting to pieces, with a family in every room, backing on lanes or tidal canals that were glorified sewage ditches.

Here, have a couple!





Um... that's all!

Comments

[archai.livejournal.com]

This may be a bit off topic, but people need to build houses like that again. Kept up, they would be so amazingly much more awesome than these paltry little cookie-cutter Personnel Storage Cabinets we've got ourselves accustomed to these days.

Look at that! How many layers of roof is that? I submit to you, sir, that when it isn't leaking on your or letting in drafts, that is awesome.

I think some of my childhood dreams of wandering around a house were filmed in one of these when it was in decent shape. Why can people not build HOUSES LIKE I USED TO DREAM.

[paka.livejournal.com]

I shall not cease from mental strife, nor shall my sword sleep in my arms, 'till we behoooooold Jerusalem...

[pyat.livejournal.com]

These are the dark Satanic mills, I guess. :) I used that song a lot in the adventures I was writing, though the players didn't twig to it.

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

That bottom picture is in a book about Shakespeare that I read - the pictures were used to illustrate Shakespeare's London since, as the author pointed out, there were buildings visible in that series of photographs that had stood since the late 1500s.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I did!

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

I would have! I hear that song in my head every time I go over the Skyway Bridge at night.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

moar plz

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can do about putting together an online gallery

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

Yes plz.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

What a strange and beautiful place to find urban history. Well done sir.